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Maggie Smith
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December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex, England
Biography:Breathes there a theatergoer or film fan on Earth who has not, at one time or another, fallen in love with the sublimely brilliant British comedic actress Dame Maggie Smith? The daughter of an Oxford University pathologist, "Smith" received her earliest acting training at the Oxford Playhouse School. In 1952, she made her professional stage bow as Viola in Twelfth Night. Four years later she was on Broadway, performing comedy routines in "Leonard Sillman"'s New Faces of 1956; that same year, she made her first, extremely brief screen appearance in "Child in the House" (she usually refers to 1959's "Nowhere to Go" as her screen debut).

In 1959, "Smith" joined the Old Vic, and in 1962 won the first of several performing honors, the London Evening Standard Award, for her work in the West End production The Private Ear/The Public Eye. Her subsequent theatrical prizes include the 1963 and 1972 Variety... Full Biography

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Maggie Smith, left, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe in "Harry Potter and the...
Maggie Smith, left, and Daniel Radcliffe in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros....
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, Emma Thompson as Sybil Trelawney, Maggie Smith as Minerva...
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, Emma Thompson as Sybil Trelawney, Maggie Smith as Minerva...
Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Miriam Margolyes (Professor Sprout) and the late Richard Harris...
Dolores Umbridge Imelda Staunton, left, seems far too beautiful to play Professor Umbridge, the...
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